Sixty eight year old Mary Rutherford, from Withernsea, died when the car she was in was hit head on by Nikita Ainley. She was just 18 and was sending a message on her mobile phone as she drove.

Mrs Rutherford's daughter, Dawn Timmings has previously spoken about her grief and anger over the way her mother died:

"My mum didn't deserve to die like that. I just don't understand what could be so important that you'd put people's lives at risk like that."

Phone records proved that Ainely, now 20, had been sending a message when she smashed head-on into Mrs Rutherford's car in May 2011.

But it was only last month that she pleaded guilty to causing death by dangerous driving. Road safety campaigners say sentences should be tough and that people who text while driving can e up to 23 times more likely to crash

A young driver who killed a woman whilst texting at the wheel has been sentenced to three and a half years in a young offenders' Institution. Nikita Ainley was 18 when she hit Mary Rutherford near Withernsea in East Yorkshire.

Now aged 20, she pleaded guilty last month to causing death by dangerous driving and was sentenced today at York Crown Court.

There are fresh warnings about deadly dangers of texting while driving after a Yorkshire family were left devastated.

Mary Rutherford died when the car she was in was hit by a driver who was sending a message on her mobile phone at the time. Tonight Mary's daughter has spoken to Calendar to warn everyone do not text and drive.

Next month the driver who caused Mary's death will be sentenced in court.

A grieving daughter is warning drivers about the dangers of texting at the wheel after her mother was killed by a motorist who was sending messages on her phone.

Dawn Timmings, who's from Hull, says her family has been devastated by the death of 68-year-old Mary Rutherford in the crash near Withernsea last year. A 20-year-old woman has admitted causing her death by dangerous driving.

The daughter of a woman killed by a driver who was texting at the wheel is warning of the dangers.

Mary Rutherford died on the road where the crash happened north of Hull. Her daughter, Dawn Timmings, says her mother did not deserve to die that way. We have her full story on Calendar at 6pm on ITV1.